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“In any war, don’t let your enemies take your weapons away from you”
14+ hour, 30+ min ago (171+ words) Stephen Hicks.org “In any war, don’t let your enemies take your weapons away from you” “That was Stephen Hicks’s warning to students at Galt’s Gulch 2026, our annual student conference held this summer in San Diego. A Senior Scholar at…...
“Fascist!” and “Nazi!”—Hyperbole vs. History
1+ week, 3+ day ago (42+ words) Stephen Hicks.org My talk on rhetoric and intellectual self-defense, at the 2026 Galt’s Gulch conference in San Diego: Related: The full audiobook of my Nietzsche and the Nazis: Blasts from the past...
Tennessee Williams on the death penalty, determinism, and logic
2+ week, 4+ day ago (322+ words) Tennessee Williams wrote The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. The play Streetcar won him a Pulitzer and the movie version, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, won several Oscars. From an article…...
America at 250 – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
3+ week, 1+ day ago (193+ words) A decade before the formal end of slavery in the entire USA, Frederick Douglass spoke on “What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?” on July 5, 1852, to the Rochester Ladies’ Anti-Slavery Society in New York. “What, then, remains to…...
Galt’s Gulch 2026, San Diego – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
3+ week, 3+ day ago (31+ words) Galt’s Gulch 2026, San Diego Stephen Hicks.org Action shot from my talk at the Galt’s Gulch event in San Diego: More event coverage here: Blasts from the past...
Galt’s Gulch, San Diego, next week
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (482+ words) Stephen Hicks.org Iâll be giving two talks at next weekâs Galtâs Gulch conference in (hopefully) sunny San Diego, California âPrimitivism and Polarizationâand the Power of Philosophyâ: Deeply divided groups seem to dominate public discussion…...
Entrepreneurship and Ethics — new publication
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (93+ words) Stephen Hicks.org My essay is part of the just-published Springer volume Handbook of the Philosophical Foundations of Business Ethics, edited by professors Christoph Luetge and Marianne Thejls Ziegler Abstract: Entrepreneurship is a value-laden enterprise that typically demands a character…...
Hatred as a unifying force
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (196+ words) A hypothesis about the strange Left-Islamist alliance — both of them marching together to support Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Ayatollahs, and both hostile to USA, Israel, the West more broadly. Drawing upon to perceptive analysts, Friedrich Nietzsche and John Stuart Mill:…...
Experimental cancer drugs: Laetrile [Business Ethics Cases series]
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (65+ words) Stephen Hicks.org My video lecture on the experimental cancer drug Laetrile, part of the Classic Business Ethics Cases series. Contents:1. Context and defining the issue.2. The argument for legalizing Laetrile.3. The argument for banning Laetrile.4. Comparing the arguments for…...
THE HUMAN BEING [Lecture 7 of ‘Metaphysics & Epistemology’ course]
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (481+ words) In lecture seven, we study three philosophical approaches to human nature: dualism (humans as body and non-physical soul), reductive materialism (psychological phenomena as physical byproducts), and integrationism (mind as an emergent property of complex systems). We explore key arguments, including…...